Ep. 618: Genre Tips: How to Write Literary Fiction

Helping Writers Become Authors

K.M. Weiland

Arts

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Learning how to write literary fiction can be helpful not only in writing the genre itself, but in raising the vibration on any type of story.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the six hundred eighteenth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.
0:16.0	I hope you enjoy this week's episode,
0:18.0	Genre Tips, How to Write Literary Fiction.
0:22.0	But first, this is just a quick note to say that my new book is now
0:27.2	available for pre-order and that book is writing archetypal character
0:33.0	arts, subtitled Beyond the Heroes Journey.
0:37.1	And I will be telling you a little bit more
0:38.9	about that in the future when it's closer
0:40.5	to its release date, which will be March 30th. And do stay tuned because as always I will
0:46.5	be sharing a very exciting prize giveaway to celebrate the launch. I have a really fun idea in mind for this giveaway. Anyway, I'm very excited about this book and if you're
0:57.0	interested you can pre-order it on Amazon right now. Again, the book is called Writing
1:02.0	Arty archetypal Character Arts Beyond the Hero's Journey.
1:06.0	And now back to today's episode.
1:10.2	So what exactly is literary fiction?
1:13.0	Although the term often means many different things to different people, the general consensus is that literary fiction encompasses dramatic stories that consciously focus on existential themes and artistic
1:27.2	prose.
1:28.2	Now naturally these elements can appear in any type of stories so deciding you want to learn how to write literary fiction can be helpful not only in writing stories that specifically fit this category, but in raising the vibration on any type of story.
1:42.0	Ironically, the term literary fiction is often used in opposition to the term genre, which I guess means that we have the literary genre and the genre.
1:53.5	Literary fiction is a somewhat contested term
1:56.9	used by some writers to indicate a higher level of writing
2:00.5	and by others as a crack at elitism. Back in the day when what is properly considered genre fiction was classed only as low-brow pop fiction for the masses, literary fiction was the domain of the serious writer.
2:16.8	These days, however, when so many genre entries are themselves high art, the borders of what is literary fiction and what is not have become
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from K.M. Weiland, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of K.M. Weiland and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.